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- GRAPEVINE, Page 23Watch Your Back, George
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- Conservatives are speaking more openly about the "nuclear
- option," and it has nothing to do with the gulf crisis. That's
- the code phrase true believers have given nascent plans to
- mount a right-wing challenge to George Bush in 1992. The main
- purpose of such a kamikaze mission would be to force Bush to
- return to the fold on taxes. Activists, including American
- Conservative Union chief David Keene and former Reagan
- Administration official Don Devine, have convened several times
- in secret to plot strategy. Two groups met last weekend, one in
- Dallas and another in suburban Maryland, and talk of rebellion
- is becoming more public. An upcoming article in the Heritage
- Foundation's quarterly Policy Review recalls Teddy Roosevelt's
- 1912 Bull Moose challenge to fellow Republican William Howard
- Taft, which resulted in a Democratic victory, and suggests such
- an outcome might be preferable to the "betrayals of the Bush
- Administration." G.O.P. hard-liners say they fear that if one
- of their own does not challenge Bush, former Klansman David
- Duke will try to become the right-wing standard-bearer.
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